Our services
Power your
project
Project delivery
We provide experienced project professionals to help you achieve your business strategy through delivering key projects. Whatever the size of your organisation or project, we’ve got experience across Australasia in multiple sectors including Local / Regional Government, Agribusiness, Transport and Logistics, Utilities, Education, and more.
Consulting
Our experienced team will improve your project management capability at an organisational level, by helping you implement project delivery structure, governance, processes, and tools. We equip your organisation and people to get momentum and realise your strategic goals.
Training services
As the leading Project Management Professional (PMP)® and Project Management education provider, we empower people to achieve success and reach their potential through expert professional development, mentoring, and globally recognised certification training.
Why choose us
Proven expertise. We love what we do
Collective experience
With over 100 years of collective project experience and a reputation for delivering outcomes, we’ve built a legacy that’s only growing.
Proven processes & methodologies
We provide a process-based approach which applies the right methodologies to fit your specific needs, delivered by our proven and capable team.
Experienced consultants
Our people are talented and skilled professionals, proven to deliver successful projects.
Our 4 P’s
Some of New Zealand’s largest and most successful organisations use Millpond because we offer a unique mix of capabilities, we summarise as our ‘four Ps’:
1.2k
Projects managed
25+
Current client engagements
100+
Years of project management experience
4000
Individuals trained
95%
First time certification pass rate
Our people
Meet the team.
We’re ‘people, people’.
Mike Roberts
Mike is known for the quality of his leadership and his drive to return value with all…
James Dobson
James is the Founder of Millpond. His wide-ranging experience enables…
Stefan Buerki
With a technical and commercial background, Stefan brings a wide range of business...
Richard Todd
Richard’s skills are adaptable and transferrable across multiple industries…
Kristie Fogarty
Her knowledge and skill to influence a diverse range of stakeholders means she’s able to...
Kim Crawford
Kim consistently demonstrates strength in project management practices...
John Shaw
John is confident managing and overseeing hands-on technical aspects...
Jan Harrison
Jan has wide experience in operations, project, and event management through business...
Greg McNeill
Greg loves to ‘roll up his sleeves’ to create business cases for major investments and...
Elly Barnes
Elly is focused on delivering results while building positive relationships with clients and vendors...
Focus was a key factor – we had a PM who could focus the majority of his time on the one project.
Joe Smedley, Head of Container Operations,
LPC
We knew Millpond had the capability and they are well connected in the global project management landscape. As a training and consultancy organisation, Millpond is always building knowledge, which is something they bring to the partnership with Foodstuffs SI.”
Matt Richardson, Head of PMO, Foodstuffs SI
It was really a consultative process, as Millpond asked the right questions, then they gave us the right solution.
Ian Lafferty, Director of Executive Programs,
University of Otago
Our Trainer was excellent. She had a manner and charm that is magnetic and her ability to facilitate class engagement is testament to her project management skills. Great course. One of the most engaging I’ve ever been on.
Bevan Johnson, Project Manager, Fonterra
Millpond managed a multi-vendor project team spread across the world, within very ambitious scopes and time frames. Millpond were great to work with, with their simple but methodical approach to project management.
Grant Longden, Digital Manager, FairWay.
Millpond delivered a completely bespoke training solution. They created a breadth of training content and gave us examples of what to expect during the training. The Millpond team are great – very patient and tolerant.
Cameron Shipman, Manager of Programme Project Delivery
Kāinga Ora
The online resources (material and questions) were very helpful for post-course study. The trainers know their stuff but more importantly, tailor it to the individual learning style and pace.
Nick Dollin, Project Manager, Trimble
It was great how Millpond modified the process to fit with the business and showed us how to use it. The shared ownership of the final process gave us confidence in an effective outcome.
Quenton Johnston, Process Manager, OceanaGold Macraes Operation
What’s been happening
Our latest
case studies
Isaac Construction is a 450-person, Christchurch-based civil construction company that in recent years has quickly expanded.
Millpond was able to form a strong relationship with TCC stakeholders through the development of this completely bespoke training course.
Millpond provided Kathmandu with an experienced team with the right skills to upgrade their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.
Millpond were instrumental in shaping the new Otago University MBA PCE offering
Foodstuffs needed a Project Manager to deliver two critical and complex projects.
A bespoke Capability Programme to establish and develop the critical capabilities required to meet future demands of BHP’s growth portfolio.
The Millpond team developed an entirely bespoke, one day PRINCE 2 training program that was delivered at two separate locations in July of 2020.
FairWay Resolution Ltd is New Zealand’s leading dispute resolution and conflict management organisation.
OceanaGold needed to define a set of structured yet flexible processes capable of implementing and managing the full spectrum of projects.
Tasked with managing the South Island’s largest port, Lyttelton Port Company facilitates the import